sophistry

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Recent Examples of sophistry Many of Khan’s progressive allies have floated a much more realistic cure for Khan’s abysmal litigation track record: to rewrite antitrust laws in Congress, where laws are made, instead of losing case after case in court with tortured legalistic sophistry and ad hoc judicial rulemaking. Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Fortune, 7 Dec. 2023 Dickie, a student at Trinity College, wanders into a club debate, where he’s bewitched by the quicksilver sophistry of one of his peers, Willie, who is openly gay. Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 22 Aug. 2023 While much of the book is devoted to contrasting the subtle reality of judicial decision-making with the crude portrayal that increasingly dominates popular discourse, the subtleties to which Breyer draws our attention are mostly sophistry—as Breyer more or less concedes. Ryan D. Doerfler, The New Republic, 13 Oct. 2021 People know just enough to engage in sophistry so as to confuse and convince the choir, and bluster among the ignorant. Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 15 Sep. 2013 See All Example Sentences for sophistry
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Noun
  • Director Flanagan handles the escalating insanity with suggestive ambiguity, nothing too bombastic for as long as the story allows.
    Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 6 June 2025
  • Leading in ongoing ambiguity demands emotional endurance, narrative agility and the strength to stay grounded while evolving at speed.
    Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 6 June 2025
Noun
  • Recently recovered emails, messages, photos, and videos reveal the depths of the deception.
    Dominic Patten, Deadline, 9 June 2025
  • Even commercial amusements that played with illusion, such as trompe l’oeil paintings and chess-playing automatons, helped train Americans of all classes to identify the signs of deception.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 9 June 2025
Noun
  • On his life as a moviegoer So vividly drawn is King’s fiction that it’s offered the basis for some 50 feature films.
    Jake Coyle, Twin Cities, 5 June 2025
  • From Paper to Protocol Today’s trade infrastructure is a patchwork of legal fictions and trust intermediaries - letters of credit, bills of lading, third-party guarantees - many of which exist solely to simulate trust.
    Sean Lee, Forbes.com, 5 June 2025

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